{"id":305993,"date":"2018-11-23T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T08:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305993"},"modified":"2018-11-23T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T08:29:10","slug":"congress-president-rahul-gandhi-condemns-cp-joshis-brahmin-remarks-joshi-apologises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-president-rahul-gandhi-condemns-cp-joshis-brahmin-remarks-joshi-apologises\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress President Rahul Gandhi condemns CP Joshi\u2019s \u2018Brahmin\u2019 remarks, Joshi apologises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305994 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/joshi-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/joshi-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/joshi.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/joshi-645x420.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday strongly disapproved party leader CP Joshi\u2019s reported statement and stepped in with a clarification and a rebuke for Joshi over his comment that &#8220;only Brahmins know and can talk about Hinduism\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;CP Joshi&#8217;s statement is against the Congress party&#8217;s principles. No party leader should make statements that hurt any section of the society,&#8221; Rahul Gandhi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Asking Joshi to apologise on his statement, the Congress president added: &#8220;I am sure Joshiji has realized his mistake in view of the Congress&#8217;s beliefs and workers&#8217; sentiment.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Joshi apologised and felt sorry if his comments had hurt any section of the society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Joshi tweeted, \u201cIn respect of the principles and feelings of the Congress, I apologise if my comments hurt any section of the society.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s remarks came after a video of Joshi surfaced on Thursday in which Joshi while addressing a gathering at\u00a0Sema village in Rajsamand district of\u00a0poll-bound Rajasthan had said,\u201cUma Bharti, who belongs to the Lodi samaj, is talking about Hindu religion.\u00a0Narendra Modi too belongs to some other religion and talks about Hinduism.\u201d It&#8217;s only Brahmins who don&#8217;t talk about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was heard saying that only pandits and brahmins knew about Hinduism and were learned enough to speak about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday strongly disapproved party leader CP Joshi\u2019s reported statement and stepped in with a clarification and a rebuke for Joshi over his comment that &#8220;only Brahmins know and can talk about Hinduism\u201d. &#8220;CP Joshi&#8217;s statement is against the Congress party&#8217;s principles. No party leader should make statements that hurt any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[9838,9836,9837],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305995,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305993\/revisions\/305995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}